LAFMS fan Jordan Rosenfeld of Los Angeles shared with us a photo of his newly placed LAFMS sticker on the back of his van... which incidentally was parked outside of Poo-Bah, home base of the LAFMS for 40 years and where you can purchase t-shirts and record bags emblazoned with the LAFMS "logo". If you stop into the store, tell Ron we sent you! And thanks again to Jordan for displaying our sticker.

Joe Potts, founding member of the LAFMS and member of AIRWAY, Le Forte Four, Joe & Joe and other projects, visited Gabie Strong's "Crystalline Morphologies" radio show recently and spoke about AIRWAY, LAFMS and his methodologies for creating music and DIY distribution.

Joe also played songs from his archives, as well as new solo material soon to be released.

Please join the LAFMS in a special free concert with AIRWAY, Extended Organ and a duo of John Wiese and Ted Byrnes. The concert celebrates the opening of the L.A. Art Book Fair, and is presented by East of Borneo and The Box. The concert, as well as the fair, is free and all ages.

8pm: AIRWAY

7pm: Extended Organ

6pm: John Wiese + Ted Byrnes

Presented by East of Borneo and The Box on the KChung Radio Outdoor Stage

AIRWAY is a noise orchestra created by Joe Potts in 1977 originally to explore the phenomena of subliminal messaging via noise. For this concert AIRWAY’s performance will feature some of Japan’s best noise musicians specially recorded for this performance.

LAFMS Japan organizer Takuya Sakaguchi recruited three teams of three musicians and invited each group to contribute a separate 20 minute mix that will then be layered into the sound field by Joe Potts. Sakaguchi calls the group "Team Airway Japan".

“Team Airway Japan” performers (in alphabetical order):

Takayuki Hashimoto – saxophone, guitar and other instrument player in .es (“dot es”)

Atsushi Reizen – guitar player and the second Japanese musician who has released an album on Fylkingen Sweden (the first is Yuji Takahashi)

Takuya Sakaguchi – organizer of the group and LAFMS supporter for 35 years in Japan

Shizuo Uchida – bass player of Hasegawa Shizuo, Kito Mizukumi Rouber and Le Son De L’os and member of Keiji Haino’s Nijiumu

Extended Organ is Tom Recchion, Joe Potts, Fredrik Nilsen, and Paul McCarthy with Alex Stevens. Mike Kelley was a longtime member of the group and continues to be a contributing member by virtue of the sound recordings he provided to the group before his death: “in case I can't make a gig, I can still play.”

Extended Organ last performed in November 2013 in Detroit at MOCAD. A video clip of their performance can be found here.

John Wiese and Ted Byrnes are two of LA’s finest improvising musicians and artists and will be featured as a rare duo for this performance.

"Here's a rarity in the LAFMS lineage. A bit of history. Mike Bennett has put up the Stillife EP, (1981/82) on Bandcamp, you can get it there. The album cover was designed by Paul McCarthy and the players were Chas Smith, Michael Jon Fink, Mike leDonne-Bhennet, Tom Recchion and Dennis Duck."

There are two other extremely rare recordings available there as well. Thanks Mike for posting these great tunes!

"Note left by a patron of South Pasadena's own Rialto Theater from 1978, after a performance by the South Pasadena Free Music Ensemble, who played their improvised sets behind the curtain during a screening of John Water's 'Desperate Living' and Andy Warhol's 'Bad'."--Ace Farren Ford

NARCOMANTIC is a nonstop all-night event with surround-sound audio and multiple video projection for a sleeping audience. Two of them will be held in Germany, this week and next:

COLOGNE

26-27 October23:00-06:00

Live sound: John DuncanLive video: Ursula ScherrerFriedenkirche, Mülheim (Köln)Please book your place -- limited places available -- and bring all you need for the night. info@gerngesehen.deProduced by Georg Dietzler

BERLIN

2-3 November23:00-06:00Live sound: John DuncanLive video: Ursula ScherrerMindpirates e.V.Falkensteinstr. 48, BerlinPlease book your place -- limited places available -- and bring all you need for the night.Produced by Manuela Benetton with support from Pro Helvetia

In honor of the CD release of The Blorp Esette Gazette - Volume One - Fall 2013 (Ace & Duce / Transparency)—the new quarterly LAFMS audio magazine. (available here)—a record release party will be held on Wednesday, October 23rd at 10:00 p.m. at the Hyperion Tavern (1941 Hyperion Ave.)

Performers include Blorp curator Ace Farren Ford and GX Jupitter Larsen together for the first time; David Cotner performing live his opening track on the Volume One CD titled 'I I I'; and Rick Potts testing out new material in preparation for shows in England with Dinosaurs With Horns at Cafe Oto in London and the Colour Out of Space festival in Brighton next month.